In an otherwise dark stage, Daniel Proietto stands within a narrow pool of light wearing a bright red satin blouson, a white woollen cap, his pale face and prominent cheekbones suggesting a tormented artist. Afterlight was Maliphant's contribution to Sadler's Wells 1999 mixed programme, an homage to the impresario Sergei Diaghilev on the centenary of his Ballet Russes, and was inspired by the tragic, legendary dancer Nijinsky.
This is the Saturday Night Live sketch Teyana Taylor was working on when she heard about her Academy Award nomination. During her monologue, Taylor said "I found out the way every little girl wants to find out: getting fitted for a bald cap next to Mikey Day." Presumably it was this bald cap, which Taylor wore playing a funky grandpa who needs to throw ass at a wedding when his song comes on.
Dominique McDougal and Carro Sharkey's three-part performance, 'Did4luv'-a tragicomic dance solo performed by each of the dancers, alternating every night-debuted this month at the dual 30th anniversary of Sophiensaele's inauguration as a theater and its renowned dance festival, Tanztage. This year's Tanztage invites its audience to consider the (im)material conditions of artistic production: the body and self as sources for capitalist exchange, the extractive nature of our systems of work and its resulting consequences for marginalized bodies.
The Battery Dance Festival, the city's longest-running free public dance festival, will next month begin its 44th edition with the re-opening of the Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Park on Saturday, August 9.
When I first came into contact with hip hop ... it was a very empowering time and moment,... at the age of 26 after my classical training, I felt compelled to reach back and connect to that part of me I left behind in Los Angeles.
